extenuate

lieventää puhekieltä To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
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His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.

To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner (..)

CLAUDIO. I know what you would say: if I have known her,

You'll say she did embrace me as a husband,

And so extenuate the 'forehand sin: No, Leonato,

I never tempted her with word too large;

But, as a brother to his sister, show'd

Bashful sincerity and comely love.

Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.

Who can extenuate thee?